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The recent controversy surrounding the group of Carnatic musicians who helped produce a Christian album set to Carnatic melodies, while having generated much outrage, has also spawned a host of interesting arguments coming out in defense of the artists’ actions. One particular article from The Hindu 1 which caught my attention posed an extremely intriguing […]

This post will discuss sutras relevant to इत्संज्ञा. In certain situations, certain letters are designated as इत्; they are so-called इत्संज्ञकः or “इत्-letters.” They have a variety of functions including the forming of प्रत्याहाराः such as हल् (consonants) and अच् (vowels) all of which we will discover throughout the course of this series. For now, […]